Blog 2010

You know how I feel about film deals. At first, sure, everyone’s excited.
It’s going to be the greatest movie ever made. You’ll be walking down
the red carpet in no time, Max. You’ll be doing blow off the naked backs
of strung-out starlets. But a few years later, and you know what? No
starlets. Not one.

Not that it’s all about the starlets. I’m happily married. I’m just
saying, it would be nice to be offered starlets. The point is, I have
discovered that there’s a lot that can derail a project between sign-on
and starlets. In fact, starlets seem to be the exception. Most of the time,
the movie never happens.

So
when the Machine Man deal happened,
I tried to steel myself. “Meh,” I told people. “Not as glamorous as it sounds.
Probably never go anywhere.” A few months ago, I heard Darren
Aronofsky was interested in directing. “Yeah, there’s always a big name who’s
interested,” I said. “Everyone’s always interested.”
Then he signed on. And today it’s public, being reported in
Hollywood Reporter and
Variety.

Now,
Aronofsky is possibly the greatest director in the world. By which I mean,
if you wrote a book or a screenplay, and you wanted someone to make it
into a film, you would choose him. Because many people can do
smart and unsettling and entertaining, but not usually all at once.

His newest film is
“Black Swan,”
which premieres in the US on December 3. It’s written by
Mark Heyman, who is also on board for Machine Man. So I’m
basically hoping Black Swan is the best movie of all time.

It is getting harder to stay cool about this.

By the way, Aronofsky was involved with the Robocop remake
before the studio imploded. So do you think he walked away with a head full
of unrealized ideas about bioaugmentation or what?